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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.
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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
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